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	Raluca Tomescu
Raluca earns 2 for every 20% of the PILGRED repairs successfully completed.
Antisocial At the start of each cycle, if the antisocial player is in a room containing another crewmember, they'll lose a morale point.
Skills:
1	Physicist
2	Detached Crewmember
3	Technician
4	Genius
5	Designer
Position on title lists:
#9	Commander
#4	NERON Administrator
#16	Communications Officer

Physics genius at the age of 11, Raluca is the inventor of the PILGRED reversible combustion reactor as equipped on the Daedalus. Alongside Lai Kuan Ti, she also designed almost all of the on-board modules and is capable of improving them further. Suffering from autism, Raluca will only tolerate the presence of Schrödinger, her cat which she managed to smuggle on board in spite of the doctor's recommendations.

How to play

Raluca's primary objective is to get the PILGRED Reactor working. She can also make great contributions to key NERON Projects thanks to her unique Physicist skill, even more so whe she is also a Technician, Designer, or Genius. As a Technician, Raluca can also assist with maintaining the ship in order to free Terrence's for drone upgrades.

However, Raluca has a unique trait, Antisocial, which causes one point of morale loss when in the same room as another player at the end of a cycle. This usually hampers her regeneration, as she will rarely find a place to sleep unless she gets a (second) Swedish Sofa in her chosen restroom, which is usually one of the rear turrets (to avoid contact with people coming through the engine room).

Bronze Tips

Physicist: Raluca's unique skill which allows her to accelerate PILGRED repairs with free actions. A good choice of skill for your both repairing PILGRED and researching the Plasma Shield.

Detached Crewmember: Easily Raluca's worst skill, taking this as a Bronze player is like taking Determined on Bronze Hua. Don't do it.

Technician: No free PILGRED points, instead free Tech points. Comparable bonuses on PILGRED and Plasma Shield to a Physicist, but bonuses to more NERON projects as well as general repairing which lengthens a ship's lifespan. The more versatile choice.

Genius: Possibly worth it if the Plasma Shield is within the first three projects in the Nexus. Otherwise you're crippling your potential. Highly situational.

Designer: Allows Raluca to contribute to the Nexus. Not recommended as Raluca's NERON prowess comes from her Physicist or Tech boosts.

Silver Tips

Physicist / Technician: The strongest combo. Allows rapid PILGRED repairs as well as helping out the rest of the ship. Only if the ship has multiple Technicians already, consider swapping Technician for Genius or Designer.

Physicist / Designer: Weaker PILGRED repairs in exchange for stronger NERON progress. RNG can make or break you, depending on how long it takes for Plasma Shield to show up.

Technician / Designer: Even weaker PILGRED repairing for even stronger NERON progress. Less RNG reliant than Physicist.

Physicist OR Technician / Genius: These combos may look good on paper, but you will be sacrificing a powerful long-term skill for a quick boost. Taking Physicist and Technician means you will be adding ~10% per participation to the Plasma Shield anyway.

Gold Tips

Drop Detached Crewmember and enjoy your four free actions per day. Be sure to constantly mention how much better you are at NERON projects than Kuan Ti.

Mush Tips

A low-level Mush Raluca is a mixed blessing. You have a great excuse for being Dirty, but you are generally restricted from using the dorms. Trapper is a must if you want to spore people: Trap PILGRED or the Nexus to turn your coworkers (but beware of the Mycoscan), trap Icarus Bay for a more anonymous (but also less tasrgeted) infection, and Alpha Bay 2 to infect whoever decides to take the gathered Scrap Metal.
A Phys/Tech Raluca in combination with Transfer, on the other hand, is a formidable danger to the ship even by herself, as she is liable to rush PILGRED to completion and return to Sol (by taking possession of the current Commander) at any time if not watched closely.

Useful tips

• Your Antisocial trait means you lose one for every cycle spent in the same room as another person, making it difficult to regain and . Try to maintain a buffer in your point gauges, so you're never caught without .
  • Janice's Shrink skill can cancel out this decay if you need to use a dorm bed. Just make sure she does not wander off!
  • Janice is your best friend anyway, as you will have to call on her to comfort you for .
• As Raluca cannot rely on the camera protection that the dorms provide, you should claim one of the rear turrets as your private room and remind the crew not to enter while you are in there.
  • As a side effect, this allows you to watch and report on the current Hunter / Asteroid situation.
  • If you can trust your crew not to blunder through, a rear storage may be even better due to its proximity to NERON.
  • Ideally, you also find one person you trust who can reliably help you with your work and also load fuel, and have that person be the only one who enters the engine room besides yourself. That minimizes the risk of you being turned by a Trapper until the Mush have been taken care of.
    • Again, Janice is ideal for this, as you will be in contact with her anyway, and she will always be around the dorms with to spare.
• As a Physicist, your points will be useless once the PILGRED Reactor is done, and they alone may be enough to get the job done over time. Ask your crew if it might be better to conserve your for NERON Projects and/or repairs rather than putting them into PILGRED as well.
  • As long as Mush are on board, getting PILGRED to more than ~70% is dangerous anyway due to the risk of an early return to Sol (and will make the crew wary of you even if human). Once you reach that region, put the repairs on hold until it is safe to continue.
• If there are extra cameras from Paranoid, a good alternative to putting one into the engine room would be Icarus Bay, where it provides safety for yourself as well as the expedition teams.

Biography

3129 

Born in the suburbs of Epiphome on Callisto.

3140 

Raluca's excellent results at school propelled her to university and studies in economic and spatial sciences on Ganymede at the age of 11. There she studied fluid dynamics then quantum mechanics. After a brilliant thesis on cypheril wave function, Raluca heads off to work in the laboratories belonging to Cadaroc in Australia.

3142 

She meets the inventor Lai Kuan-Ti for the first time. he shows her the galactic ark project, Magellan. he explains that the work displayed in her thesis could be used to create a revolutionary engine which could allow them to reach new galaxies. Raluca feigns indifference but is inspired by this idea. Nonetheless, she still has to finish her work at Cadaroc.

3143 

Raluca leaves Earth to join the crew of the Magellan on the platform Xyloph-17 orbiting Jupiter. She immediately gets to work on the plans for the PILGRED reactor which has haunted her dreams now for many months.

3145 

The Alpha version of the PILGRED reactor is complete but the graphene injection system is a failure. The laboratory supercalculator is completely incapable of altering and redirecting the magma diffusion in real time.

3146 

Following major Federation investment, Lai Kuan-Ti equips the laboratory with a dedicated calculation bay measuring 500 m3. Her skills should allow Raluca to start an experimental combustion process in her reactor in a year or two.

3148 

A massive explosion destroys the alpha prototype of the reactor along with part of the lab. The ensuing fire miraculously spared the calculator which remained intact in the middle of the charred ruins. After a careful reading of the logs, the crew discovered that it was the calculator itself that was to blame. This calculator is known as NERON.

3149 

After multiple unsuccessful simulations, the results concluded: NERON seemed to make deliberate errors when performing sensitive calculations. As Raluca and Lai Kuan-Ti no longer have the means to install a new calculator, the project seems to have reached an impass.

3150 

Janice Kent joins the team. According to her, NERON has developed an incredibly complex cyber-psyche which seems to place it in mid-adolescence. After several psychoanalytical defragmentation sessions, she improves the performance of the calculator and persuades it to repeat the tests.

3152 

While Raluca completes the second iteration of her reactor, the crew learns that the Mush invasion has reached the Sol system. Kuan-Ti wants to launch the ark within the year, but the reactor simply isn't ready to support such a load. After a long discussion with Kim Jin-Su, the director of the project, Raluca proposes a reduced version of her engine, known as the PILGRED V3. She should be able to complete its construction in under 3 years and it should be able to power a class 3 ship which will be known as the Daedalus. The race against time begins.

3153 

The plans to transform the modules from Magellan advance rapidly and initial tests of the PILGRED V3 are encouraging. To overcome the solitude of her research, Raluca adopts a cat which she names Schrödinger.

3154 

A breakdown in relations between the Federation and Xyloph-17 force the team to make an emergency departure from Jupiter. The PILGRED V3 reactor is fired up for the first time in a real-life situation. In spite of the inherent hygiene risk, Raluca manages to sneak Schrödinger into her cryosleep capsule.

3170 

Raluca and Schrödinger wake up in the spacial void known as Magellan. According to NERON, the reactor is propelling them in the correct direction. However, it is no longer functioning and the Daedalus is currently under attack...